
Bearing Witness
The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean, Australia's Greatest War Correspondent
Peter Rees(Author)
Allen & Unwin (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 25. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-1-74237-954-8 (ISBN)
Description
Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the man who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the man who created the Anzac legend. He is the man who was absolutely central to the creation of this country's most important cultural institution, the Australian War Memorial. Yet we know so little about the real man. Bean was not just a key figure in the telling of Australia's military history but also in the shaping of the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation.
Reviews / Votes
'Peter Rees has done what no one else has managed: read the vast Bean archive and get inside the head of the most influential figure in Australia's military history. Rees's superb book shows how Bean bore witness to Australia's Great War.' - Prof. Peter Stanley, UNSW Canberra. 'Part sophisticated military history, part story for a nation, Peter Rees provides a warm and deeply moving portrait of Charles Bean, one of the greatest Australians of the twentieth century.' - Michael McKernanMore details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
St Leonards
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
2 x 16pp mono
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
777 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-74237-954-8 (9781742379548)
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Peter Rees
Bearing Witness
The remarkable life of Charles Bean, Australia's greatest war correspondent
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03/2015
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Person
Peter Rees has been a journalist for forty years. He is the author of several books including Desert Boys, Anzac Girls and Lancaster Men.